Awards & Accolades
Top awards for Dr. Sal Rodriguez, Applied Surface Engineering CEO:
✔ Scientist of the Year Award presented by GMiS. This marks the first occasion that a US Department of Energy National Laboratory has ever received such award.
✔ R&D 100 Award, which is referred as the “Nobel Prize of Engineering” and the “Oscars of Innovation”, and is awarded for the world’s top 100 most technologically-significant new products.
✔ Awarded the highest accolade from the US Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration, the “Defense Programs Award of Excellence”.
✔ Awarded the prestigious “National Award of Nuclear Science and History”. Notable recipients include Glen Seaborg, Murray Gell-Mann, Senator Pete Domenici, Admiral Kirkland H. Donald, and Ambassador Paul Robinson.
✔ Member of “The Sandian 300+”, which are the top, all-time Sandia National Laboratories inventors over the past 75 years.
In the NEWS…
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Forbes Magazine, “To Make Rockets Fly Farther, Dimple Them Like Golf Balls”, E. Tegler, January 30, 2024. https://www.forbes.com/sites/erictegler/2024/01/30/to-make-rockets-fly-farther-dimple-them-like-golf-balls/?ss=aerospace-defense&sh=4aec0db4b435.
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The American Society of Mechanical Engineers, “It’s All in the Dimple”, Special Edition, Technology that Moves the World, Vol. 146, No. 6, pp. 30-35, 2024.
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The American Society of Mechanical Engineers, “Better Airflow and Heat Transfer, Thanks to Dimples”, Louise Poirier, Senior Editor, March 21, 2024. https://www.asme.org/topics-resources/content/better-airflow-and-heat-transfer,-thanks-to-dimples
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American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, “Applied Computational Fluid Dynamics and Turbulence Modeling”, J. Riglin and B. Reid, February 23, 2021. https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/1.J060595?journalCode=aiaaj, www.CFDturbulence.com
